Controlling Lead during Molding

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  • Melnic

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    Dec 27, 2012
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    I do have a propane burner and a cheap iron frying pan I used to melt down a large piece last year. I think k I should mix in some lots and get one mix and pop them into cup cake pans . I totally forgot I had that pan which is already fowled with lead. That should get me enough lead to shoot all next year


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    Melnic

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    Picking up a frying pan with hot, molten lead is dangerous. I suggest you get a deeper pot. I have nerve damage from a steam burn and it was no where hot as lead. Be careful out there.

    I used a ladle when I melted down the big piece I had until I could not use it, then, tilted pan, then poured last few.

    I could stand to have something bigger to make a bigger mix though.
     

    Brickman301

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    As others have posted, melting down bigger lots of lead into ingots, would help a lot.

    I don’t mix a lot of lead. I try to keep things simple.
    Pure lead in one pot
    Straight wheel weights in another.
    50/50 mix of pure lead and wheel weights in another. You could always add tin into this pot as well.
     

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